I was going trough my old blog posts last weekend because I thought I could find ideas for new posts there. I did. No wonder since I've provided material here since March 2013!My curiosity picked to re-paint one digital painting from 2013. I kinda wanted to prove myself that my skills have improved. See, many artists suffer because they don't think they're good enough or on the skill level they would love to be. It's so easy to forget the fact that development happens without noticing it immediately. If you pick up an old art-piece of yours and do it again today the result will definitely be different!The painting I chose to re-do is here: http://donichi-art.blogspot.fi/2013/11/73-do.htmlAnd how it looks today you can see above. :) I'm happy to see that I've gotten better in textures! I also noticed that I can concentrate more on details now that I don't use all my energy thinking which media I'm using... I've also learnt that I don't have to paint everything so precicely, like every grass leaf or piece of rock on the ground. As long as you get what I mean it's fine.

So, what I want to say here is that DON'T GIVE UP. Draw and practice loads. You will be rewarded someday! :)

The final version of the drawing you can check here!Here I go again! When Jazza released April's Challenge of the Month theme on his YouTube channel I thought I must take part in this again! He asked artists to depict the combining of traditional and digital media which I thought would fit me perfectly since I've drawn these mixed media drawings for some while now. But what happened to that technique!?Well, if I would've stayed in my original plan and drawn "tradigital wedding" I would've probably made the line-art on paper and then colored it in Photoshop but that idea just sucked so I ditched it. Then I opened Photoshop and started drawing something else...Which is the digital painting you see above, or at least its work-in-progress pictures. I think that shows the feeling I had before about drawing digitally. It felt strange and difficult but after spending some time with it it didn't feel that bad anymore. I even made it shake hands with my traditional techniques! It will never replace pen and paper for me though.In my work I went after a painting kind of look. I also tried my best to create different textures because that's where I lack the most when it comes to digital drawing. I found this fun but challenging to draw.Here's the video where the challenge is given if you're interested to take part in it:

Today I share a very colorful and imaginative digital painting of cats and dogs' election campaigns! I got a suggestion to draw something political where cats and dogs are candidates. I modified the subject a bit and made it suit to Finland's current situation where we have a municipal election going on. I don't know how election campaigns look in your countries but in Finland we have these tents where different parties represent their activity and try to catch people's votes. :)